Excess
[ɪk'ses;ek-;'ekses] or ['ɛk'sɛs]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits.
(noun.) a quantity much larger than is needed.
(adj.) more than is needed, desired, or required; 'trying to lose excess weight'; 'found some extra change lying on the dresser'; 'yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant'; 'skills made redundant by technological advance'; 'sleeping in the spare room'; 'supernumerary ornamentation'; 'it was supererogatory of her to gloat'; 'delete superfluous (or unnecessary) words'; 'extra ribs as well as other supernumerary internal parts'; 'surplus cheese distributed to the needy' .
格里菲思校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The state of surpassing or going beyond limits; the being of a measure beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; that which exceeds what is usual or prover; immoderateness; superfluity; superabundance; extravagance; as, an excess of provisions or of light.
(n.) An undue indulgence of the appetite; transgression of proper moderation in natural gratifications; intemperance; dissipation.
(n.) The degree or amount by which one thing or number exceeds another; remainder; as, the difference between two numbers is the excess of one over the other.
手打:波莉
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Superfluity, redundance, redundancy, superabundance.[2]. Surplus, overplus, remainder.[3]. Intemperance, dissipation, debauchery.
手打:旺达
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Advance, increase, abundance, redundancy, superfluity, extravagance, surplus,debauchery, intemperance
ANT:Deficiency, failure, shortcoming, insufficiency, temperance, sobriety
手打:洛伊斯
解釋/意思:
n. a going beyond what is usual or proper: intemperance: that which exceeds: the degree by which one thing exceeds another.—adj. Exces′sive beyond what is right and proper: immoderate: violent.—adv. Exces′sively.—n. Exces′siveness.—Carry to excess to do too much.
校對:梅雷迪思
娱乐性解釋/意思：
n. In morals an indulgence that enforces by appropriate penalties the law of moderation.
整理:谢尔登
例句/造句/用法:
- We retired from the debate which had followed on his nomination: we, his nominators, mortified; he dispirited to excess. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Another way to make the composition is to soak over night in cold water best gelatine or glue 1 part, and the excess of water poured off. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- The shady retreat furnished relief from the garish day to the primitive man, and the opaque shades and Venetian blinds of modern civilization exclude the excess of light at our windows. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The agonies of remorse poison the luxury there is otherwise sometimes found in indulging the excess of grief. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- They would extract good from the excess of evil,[440] and presently France would fall back helpless into the hands of her legitimate masters. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The excess of liberty, whether in States or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- I had cast off all feeling, subdued all anguish to riot in the excess of my despair. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- In both cases the sterility is independent of general health, and is often accompanied by excess of size or great luxuriance. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Plants thus serve to keep the atmosphere free from an excess of carbon dioxide and, in addition, furnish oxygen to the atmosphere. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- The very excess of our misery carried a relief with it, giving sublimity and elevation to sorrow. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Nor should our citizens be given to excess of laughter--'Such violent delights' are followed by a violent re-action. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Elinor saw, with concern, the excess of her sister's sensibility; but by Mrs. Dashwood it was valued and cherished. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- I traced his progress downwards, step by step, until at last he reached that excess of destitution from which he never rose again. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Both arise from excess; the one from excess of wealth, the other from excess of freedom. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- I am not so ecclesiastical as Naumann, and I sometimes twit him with his excess of meaning. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- There was no gratitude for affection past or present to make her better bear with its excesses to the others. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- It would have been more than human in them if they had not given way to some excesses of patriotic vanity. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- History can be all things to all men: nothing is easier than to summon the Terror, the Commune, lynchings in the Southern States, as witnesses to the excesses and hysterias of the mob. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- In the austere system, on the contrary, those excesses are regarded with the utmost abhorrence and detestation. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
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